The end of sex : how hookup culture is leaving a generation unhappy, sexually unfulfilled, and confused about intimacy

Summary: Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings' successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would allow them to ask for more out of sexual intimacy. The pressure to participate comes from all directions, from peers, the media, and even parents. But how do these expectations affect students themselves? And why aren't parents and universities helping students make better-informed decisions about sex and relationships? This book discusses how college students are pressured by their peers to have casual sexual encounters which leave them ambivalent and isolated, and presents advice on how they can avoid unwanted sex and form healthy, more meaningful relationships.

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ISBN: 9780465002153 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0465002153 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780465037834 (e-book)
ISBN: 0465037836 (ebk.)
ISBN: 9780465037834 (ebk.)
Physical Description: print
xv, 221 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [2013]

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

The second shift of college -- Hookup world: the what, the why, the how, the classic vs. the serial -- The all-purpose alcohol solution -- Opting in to a culture of casual sex -- Learning to play the part (of porn star) : the sexualization of college girls -- Why we get boys wrong: the emotional glass ceiling -- The virginity excuse and other modes for opting out of hookup culture (sort of) -- Opting out: rethinking abstinence education in the age of hookup culture -- Opting out of hookup culture via the date -- A new kind of sex education: good sex 101 and critical living skills -- On the practical: concrete ways to respond to hookup culture.